The "Frozen" faithful — and the box-office receipts show there are plenty of them — will find an awful lot to like about Feld Entertainment's latest Disney on Ice show.

On the other hand, those unfamiliar with the 2013 Disney film, which became the world's highest-grossing animated movie, are likely to experience some head-scratching moments.

"Disney on Ice presents Frozen," making its world premiere at Orlando's Amway Center, is lovely to look at, with its colorful costumes contrasting against the glimmering ice. But it also serves as a reminder that the film was not perfect, especially in its plotting and pacing. Rather than fixing those flaws, the ice show exacerbates them.

The opening sequence of this ice-skating version of the story eliminates the parents of Elsa and Anna, the sisters at the tale's heart. This omission creates instant confusion as to why Elsa is hiding in her room or what a magical troll is talking about.

Of course, if you've seen the movie — and let's face it, nearly everyone at the show likely has — you already know what's going on: Elsa can't control her magic power of freezing the world around her. After injuring her sister, she is kept apart from people for their protection.

The upside to racing through the plot's beginning is we get to young-adult Anna and Elsa faster, and performers Taylor Firth and Rebecca Bereswill shine in these roles. As Anna, Firth displays athletic skating with an appealing air of impetuous recklessness. She creates a jolt of energy with big, early numbers "For the First Time in Forever" and "Love Is an Open Door."

Bereswill has a serene elegance as Elsa and she does justice to "Let It Go," the ubiquitous tune that is the movie's defacto theme. Her skating isn't as showy as Firth's, but it has a lovely repressed power — just like her character of Elsa.

It's not easy to realistically lip sync spoken dialogue and sung lyrics, while conveying the emotion of the words and music through facial expressions and the movement of ice skating. These women pull it off brilliantly.

The group numbers are fun too, especially a formal dance at Elsa's coronation ball, although a troll number is hampered by the creatures' lack of color. However, the troll costumes — along with those of Sven the reindeer, Olaf the snowman and Marshmallow the snow monster — delight.

Twinkling lights are used to create Elsa's frozen castle, and if the effect doesn't exactly take your breath away, it's very pretty. As seen at a media preview, overall lighting was shaky at times. Lights could have been better used at key moments — especially at the show's climax when Anna turns to ice, another moment unclear to anyone who hasn't seen the film.

But those hardcore "Frozen" fans won't mind a bit.

'Disney on Ice presents Frozen'

• What: Ice-skating show based on the hit Disney cartoon. Although the show is primarily focused on "Frozen," characters from "Finding Nemo," "Toy Story" and "The Lion King" will make appearances, as will several Disney princesses and, of course, Mickey Mouse.